Cycling

Italian Adventure -Part 1 – Walking & Cycling in Umbria and Tuscany

30 November 2010

My much anticipated Italian adventure began as my Ryanair flight thudded down on the runway at Pisa airport (the landing was enough to make me purchase a pack of the smokeless cigarettes which are mercilessly plugged on board!). I was met by the charming Beppe our local agent for Tuscany and Umbria, with a friendly [...]

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Great Glen Cycleway – Day 4

4 November 2010

Day 4 Firstly you may note that the photographic/video accompaniment for today does not follow true to the previous couple of days. This is largely due to the sheer volume of water falling from the sky onto my head. Indeed, not only was it monsoon season in Drumnadrochit, to further challenge me a gale force [...]

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Great Glen Cycleway – Day 3

4 November 2010

Day 3 A quick peek out of the window confirms that the rain is here today, in abundance. After a wonderful breakfast at Glen Albyn I pack my stuff, leave my bags to be collected and venture out onto the cycleway. The Great Glen Way and Cycleway only really differ at this point. While the [...]

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Great Glen Cycleway – Day 2

3 November 2010

Day 2 I awoke to a glorious autumnal morning, dry and very bright, just the ideal conditions for a cycle. The sign for the official start of the Great Glen Way is located down on the green overlooking Loch Linnhe and though not as auspicious as the West Highland Way signage (The end of which [...]

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Great Glen Cycleway – Day 1

3 November 2010

Laden with optimism and the idea of a few days immersed in the peace of the Scottish countryside, I decided to tackle the Great Glen Cycleway on my bike. Here at Macs Adventure we are looking to strengthen our cycling and mountainbiking products over the winter season and I thought that the Great Glen would [...]

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Scotland, you beauty!

3 August 2009

You know you’ve had a great weekend when you can hardly walk up the stars to the office on a Monday morning. Scotland was at her very best this weekend and I had an absolutely epic weekend in the outdoors. With a sweet wind forecast for the west coast I headed down to Troon on [...]

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